Rise of Rurik

Niya's visit was still going on. Because he had to prepare a batch of mashed oats for the evening porridge, Rurik took his mother to visit his oat processing workshop.

The hammer hits the stone mortar, and the dried oat grains are gradually being smashed into powder. In fact, it is not essentially different from the Eastern pounding tool. It's just that a strong hammer can smash the wheat grains into pieces, forming a semolina that needs a lot of energy to get in this era.

"This...this is..."

Niya was stunned. She didn't understand the relationship between the wooden shaft driven by the waterwheel and the constantly beating hammer.

"It's a miracle! This is a miracle!"

Niya's body began to tremble, and then looked at her innocent son with solemn eyes, and couldn't help but tremblingly said: "Son, did Odin reward you with supernatural power. I see that your hammer keeps beating."

"Divine power?" Rurik was a little dazed.

"It's supernatural power! I can't see anyone who beats Mairen. It's just a hammer. It's moving on its own!"

Hearing, Rurik really wanted to laugh. He pointed to the rotating wooden shaft: "Mom, the source of strength is this wood, but the fundamental source is the river outside. I told you, Ou Ding put most of his wisdom in the world we see. He just gave me inspiration to let me search. Now I can say that I have found some more. Now, I am already using the river water to do something useful for us It's up."

Niya's surprised face was still tight with wrinkles, and she was still muttering: "A miracle! What a miracle."

"Oh..." Rurik's little hand slapped his forehead, I'm afraid he couldn't convince his mother. Fortunately, the young men who followed him, both men and women, are generally aware of the miracle of the so-called waterwheel, which is essentially The Russ have mastered the power of the river.

Of course, according to Kewen, the ability to understand is even more amazing. The so-called powerful Varangans began to squeeze power from the hands of the river god.

So is there any benefit to these absurd rhetoric? Of course there are benefits for Rurik, that is, in the eyes of his subordinates, he has become a greater existence. After all, after using the waterwheel to pound the oats, the oats in the wooden bowl are not only easy to cook, but also become quite sticky and delicious. I really fell in love with it after experiencing it once.

As nobles, Rurik and his mother naturally want to eat better food.

The crushed oatmeal crumbs are sifted through a gauze made of fine twine, and the result is crude oat flour. If you sift it with a higher mesh screen, it will be refined flour.

It is still the same way of making wheat cakes in the past, but using finely processed flour, Rurik can be regarded as eating the "stone pancake" in his concept. Naturally, eating this kind of cake does not require much effort. Niya feels an unprecedented freshness. Of course, she knows how to make fine flour cakes. She never thought that she could actually eat these delicate foods every day in a remote place that should be a poor country.

Niya finally got her wish, and she can happily hold her son in her arms, just like those years before.

His son is growing rapidly, and the settlements he was ordered to build and work on are proceeding at an astonishing speed. Niya knew that behind this must be a strong financial resource to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, but the son is sitting on huge wealth.

In the days that followed, Niya lived a life of pampering.

As a result of carefully observing the operation of the waterwheel and even watching the construction of the No. 3 waterwheel workshop, it was not until then that she realized that this was not a "miraculous", to be precise, "mortals have gained the wisdom of God", no doubt It was Rurik who spread the wisdom.

Niya is the most distinguished guest of Ayron Orava Fort. She eats soft flour granola every day. She eats fresh fish, or bear and venison from hunting. A sauna and barrel bath room built for her were quickly built. She became a frequent visitor to the bathroom and completely fell in love with the life here.

How good is Roseburg? In terms of enjoyment alone, I am afraid it is not as good as here.

Looking at the towering and sturdy wooden walls, and the huge "village" wrapped in the walls, her strong sense of security made her such an old woman feel at ease. And seeing the son who is committed to construction and chatting and laughing with his future wives and concubines every day, a feeling of happiness makes her even more difficult to extricate herself, even her husband Otto is no longer important.

Ten Novgorod maids, as well as the Carlota sisters and the Corvin girl Seporava...

The noble one can marry many wives according to tradition as long as he is willing. Looking at the current situation, first of all Niya had full confidence in his son. He prayed to the goddess Freya to let him live a little longer, so that when his son grew up, he could have as many as twenty grandchildren. She felt This is the most wonderful miracle I can see in the last stage of my life, and I have no regrets in this life.

Niya was enjoying a life experience she had never had before, but in Rurik's eyes, it was nothing.

Eat high-quality food every day, live in a warm and tidy house, sleep in a large and comfortable double bed, and keep clean every day in my bathroom.

This should be the most normal thing, and we must try our best to satisfy in any situation.

It’s the cost issue here that Liu Rick actually calculated an account for himself. If you want to meet the most basic guarantee of life for people after these millennia, and to achieve it in the current era, it really requires a family to have sufficient financial resources. It can only be accomplished by wealthy businessmen.

Life is beautiful now, but Roseburg is the real home.

Niya knew that he was a guest, and his son Rurik was a guest.

The real settlers are only a handful of people, those scientific people who surrendered. When winter comes, the Corvin people will continue to stick to the settlements protected by the wooden walls. Maybe there will be some Russ living here, naturally, the purpose is to hunt for fur. Most Russ will not risk leaving their homeland unless the fur from hunting animals is economically powerful enough to drive many people to take risks.

Winter hunting operations in the new year can be carried out as early as four months later.

Niya is not a woman who only indulges in pleasure, she herself is a master of leather tailoring, she really knows what it means when a large amount of fur enters Roseburg.

In previous winter hunts, hunters lacked a strong foundation, so everyone gathered together and ran north, generally returning home after a short hunt. Without a greater purpose, everyone will not stay in the cold wilderness for a long time. Now that there is the base of Elronburg, it is certain that the conditions of the northern hunting in the future will be more beneficial to the people of the tribe.

Niya and Rurik made an agreement. Because of the relationship between the priests of the summer solstice, if the conditions permit, Rurik, as a child loved by the gods, needs to kneel in the altar and tell the gods his loyalty. And admiration.

Participate in the summer festival? Of course!

Rurik has his own ideas.

The summer solstice sacrifice is on June 28th in the Julian calendar, which is the so-called "Night Without Night". There is still some time before that time, and before the day of returning, he feels that he still has a lot to do.

Even though the Elronburg settlement has added waterwheel forging machinery and equipment, due to the trained men of the steel squirrel tribe, their fine ironing skills are very poor. It is not that they cannot produce practical chrome iron tools. The efficiency is too slow.

Yes, Rurik thinks that it is still too slow to produce a hundred axe per day!

His great plan is the Ross tribe. Men of all ages first have their own axe, and after being satisfied, they will try their best to satisfy Ross. Every Ross woman also has its own axe.

In the final analysis, it needs real skilled workers to do iron work. Therefore, the blacksmith Kawei's biggest task is to desperately spread his iron skills to the Corvins while he is still in Fort Elon.

Kawei must return to Roseburg. Because of the success of the "Big Furnace", Rurik feels that he should try to implement his greater "Blast Furnace Project" in his hometown.

The hometown of Roseburg has the most professional blacksmiths, and Rurik also thought of directly transporting ore directly with freight sailing ships. He could completely build a large iron factory under his control in a land with abundant manpower and material resources like Roseburg.

However, some unexpected things always happen suddenly when people are unprepared.

Some fishing boats transporting fresh catches to Elon Orava Fort have decided to try Rurik’s suggestion. They also ran to the upper reaches of the river to cast nets to test the freshwater catch.

Not to mention, they caught some Nordic bass and barracuda, the number of which is gratifying.

After this situation was learned by the Kewen people of the Iron Squirrel Tribe, the leader Mezzasta immediately explained his experience to Rurik: River fish will not gather at the mouth of the sea. If there is a lake upstream, it would be a good fishing ground.

So is there a big lake upstream?

Rurik didn't dare to jump to a conclusion, and he didn't even have the energy to send a new expedition to investigate. Even Mechasta, who was very dedicated to investigating the outside world and finding new development points for his tribe, his excellent expedition members died under the mine. Due to the absolute lack of mature men, he temporarily lost his desire for adventure. .

At least one expedition team has been sent out, and they have been silent for a month!

They are Ross people, and there are a group of mercenaries equipped with excellent weapons! They will never become food in the bear's mouth, they will only become ruthless men who desperately hunt bears.

Just as Rurik was focusing on other important matters, they finally returned after leaving the fishermen's expedition for more than a month.

Their return is extraordinary! When I went there, there were only five small fishing boats, setting up a sail against the current under the south wind.

Now when they come back, they are drifting calmly, and there are no more five ships, but seven!

How could there be two more small fishing boats? !

The Ross fishermen, who started catching freshwater fish on the river, were the first to meet with these expedition counterparts. Then they understood the two extra boats and the ten people on the boats.

The ten men in leather coats have strong and powerful figures, and their continued beards make people feel a strong sense of majesty.

They just wore warm leather hats, but they also carried their round shields and helmets with iron plates on them.

Just these equipment, from any angle, they should be fighters.

They are not Ross warriors, but they are better than Ross warriors.

Could it be that there is another powerful tribe in the north that is unknown?

When they spoke and reported their identities when negotiating with the newly encountered fishermen, their Balmerks were self-reported.

A name that no one has ever known!

But the language they speak, as long as they are from the Roths, they must be able to understand it, and everyone speaks the same thing. The common language immediately gave everyone a strong sense of intimacy, as if these so-called "Balmerks" were part of the Svia tribe alliance, just like the Ross people, they would be regarded as one by the Mellaren tribe. Look at it as a "lost ally."

It's just that the Ross people have had frequent business contacts with their brothers in the south. It's just that the rulers of the tribe have hardly visited the territory of Melaren for more than a decade.

What about the Balmerk tribe? Have they forgotten the Mellaren? Fortunately, they have some hearsay understanding of the Ross people.

Ten Balmerk explorers were escorted down the river by fishermen. The leader claimed to be Mordgen. He learned that the leader of the Rus was in the castle named Elon Olava at the mouth of the river. Ten of them were here. The purpose of the trip completely changed!

Strange visitors sat in their simple boats, guided by people on the shore, and docked at the pier.

The hemp rope tied the raised wooden stakes (actually part of the keel) of the bow and firmly fixed it to the trestle.

Mudegan led his nine followers on the solid boardwalk, and then what you saw was a town with tall wooden walls and wooden towers!

They were stunned on the spot for a while, completely forgetting that they still had a lot of goods for exchange that they hadn't taken ashore.

At this moment, Rurik had just learned about the existence of these magical visitors. He didn’t know who the Balmerk tribe was. Out of instinctive self-preservation principles, Rurik intended to meet them, but he was also in his house inside the city wall. Put the score in it.

The perception that You Dao is the first aspect is extremely important. In this matter, Rurik immediately made some preparations.

Several mercenaries were waiting at the pier for a long time, and seeing the visitors standing still, some mercenaries deliberately asked with a rude tone: "What's the matter with you? My master got news from you, and is intending to meet you. What if my master? Angry, you will be expelled."

The mercenary glanced at the cloth bags they were still in the boat, "Hurry up, or don't even think about doing business."

"Oh! It's my fault." The explorer Mordgen hurriedly greeted his men to take care of his very important commodity-two linen pockets of white flowered sea salt.

The attitude of the mercenaries is indeed rude~www.readwn.com~ Firstly, this is the arrogance of the mercenaries, and secondly, it is also what Rurik asked them to do.

The Law of the Dark Forest? Although Rurik does not think this is the only truth, it does have this very important practical significance.

Human self-preservation is a fundamental principle. If you have contact with foreigners who have never dealt with, it is best to have this happy solution and you can do business peacefully. But the survival logic of the Nordic boundary is officially understood by Rurik after personally experiencing the war.

What is survival logic? When the two ethnic groups meet, they will go to war directly after they have fought to complete the looting and get rich. If you can't beat it, then do business on your part, keep everyone on the surface, and secretly use black hands to benefit yourself.

Rurik needs to show a very crucial attitude to outsiders who also speak Gnostic, that is, we Rus are very strong and don't make any unfavorable ideas.

Of course, Rurik planned to show off his wealth, but now it is more important to show strength!

Because now that the development tone for the Rus to compete with the Mälaren is set, Rurik, as the leader of the future, definitely does not want a potential enemy to suddenly emerge from behind.